From the Hill The Publication for Alumni of Albertus Magnus College

DECEMBER 20 01 Graduates return to alma mater

raduates with class years ending in one and six gathered at the College on September 21 and 22 in celebration of Reunion 2001. In the wake of the events of September 11, it seemed more important than ever to spend time together on campus G to strengthen the bonds between classmates and friends and to replay fond memories. To open the annual luncheon, Sr. Charles Marie (Gloria) Brantl, O.P. ’51, led those present in prayer. “…We give thanks this day for the opportunity to renew our acquaintances. We rejoice in seeing each other and recalling our happy days of youth and learning. We pray for all here present, for those who are able to be with us this day. We pray for all of our alumni, those here present, those unable to attend and especially for the deceased alumni. We pray for this College that it may continue to carry out its mission. We are grateful for the fine learning and nurturing our Alma Mater gave each of us. We pray for its administrators and fac - ulty and especially for those who are deceased… With the afternoon sun streaming in, members of the Golden Reunion Class stand together for a class photo in front of the St. Thomas Aquinas mural in the Bianchi Dining Room. …We come here today with joyful hearts and happy memories which President Julia M. McNamara toasted the Class of 1951 in celebration of their 50th Reunion. are greatly overshadowed by the tragedy of last week. The works of our hands and the cunning of our science have built great structures that we cent office workers, as passengers on planes, as heroic rescue workers. We thought would last for generations, symbols of our power and security. pray for our nation in this time of great adversity. But they, and our sense of security, lay in dust and ashes with the broken Let us join together in a moment of silence for all these people and lives of our fellow citizens. We pray for all who gave their lives as inno - especially for those directly related to our Albertus family.”

HIGHLIGHTS

Reunion Highlights ...... 2 Visit the Reunion photo gallery for a look at a wonderful weekend. Read remarks from the President of The Alumni Associ - ation to The Golden Society. y o s r e V

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The Play’s the Thing ...... 7 Visitors Catch BioBus on Campus The dramatic arts have played a leading Connecticut’s BioBus, a new 40-foot long mobile science learning center designed to role on campus since the College’s found - stimulate students’ interest in science and scientific careers, as well as educate ing. Kim Mancuso ’74 carries on the the general public about bioscience, traveled to the Albertus campus in November. tradition of Albertus alumni working Judith Greiman, president of the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, in the theatre world. sponsor of the familiarization visit, welcomed science educators from Teikyo Post University, University of Bridgeport, Sacred Heart University, Rensselaer and St. 2001 Alumni of the Year Awards . . . . . 4 Vincent’s College. Touring the BioBus from Albertus were Dr. Evelyn Garrity, Dr. Mark Upcoming Events ...... 5 Barreuther, Dr. Isaac Hon and Dr. Donnasue Graesser with her Frontiers of Science Sports ...... 6 class. Lead sponsors for the BioBus are the members of Connecticut United for Class Notes ...... 8 Research Excellence (CURE )— Connecticut’s BioScience Cluste r—and Connecticut Innovations, the state’s leading investor in high technology. Reunion 20 01 “We are exceedingly proud of you, for you represent a history of the finest values this college instill s —outstanding achievement, excellence, creativity, generosity, tolerance and social conscience, to name a few. You continue to reflect these values in your considerable contributions to the worl d— through your careers and families and friendships and volunteer work. It is more important than ever that educational institutions such as Albertus continue to foster those values that work toward making the world a better plac e— this is especially evident in light of recent tragic world events. We are more than ever a global community, and what we as individu als believe and do can have an impact on the world. As Albertus Magnus alumnae, you honor this college as you continue to reflect those values in all aspects of your lives. You are an inspiration to all of us…”

—Remarks given by Jean Andros ’95, President, Alumni Association Board of Governors at The Golden Society Induction Ceremony

Well-known muralist Tony Falcone chats with President McNamara at the opening reception of his show Artworks! in the Margaret L. MacDonough Gallery. The reception kicked off reunion weekend.

The “rowdy table” (AKA the class of 1961) takes a moment away from laughter and swapping memories to pose for a class photo.

15th Reunion classmates Kim Richards Engelhart, Rachel Hart and Carrie Mazza at the President’s cocktail reception.

Dr. Susan Cole, Professor of English, prepares for her book reading and signing at the AMC bookstore. In atten - dance were alumni, current students, faculty, staff and community members.

After The Golden Society induction, Rae Coppola Orlando ’50 enjoyed luncheon with fellow 1950 classmates.

Lawrence DeNardis, current President of the University of New Haven and former AMC faculty member, attended luncheon and the Alumni of the Year Awards presentation as the guest of Jane Nady Sigmon ’70, recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Professional Achievement award.

2 December 20 01 Dr. Janet L. Fallon ’72, new Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Sr. Mary Faith Dargan, O.P., ’53, Professor of Foreign Languages, enjoy an evening away from their offices!

Members of New Dimensions cohort 00/12 (from left to right: Laurene Instone, Barbara England, Doug Maze, Fran Pistey and Mike Renkewith) join in the fun of Pub Night.

Silver Reunion (1976) classmates Valerie Moliterno Vanadia and Harriet Buckman spend time catching up in the House of Bollstadt on Friday night.

Nancy Fallon ’79, Associate Professor of Business and Economics, displays her creative side. Her colorful, crushed velvet scarves debuted in the bookstore over Reunion Weekend.

1986 classmates Maura Hackett Federico, Danielle Barry LoCascio and Jill Mauro-Sweet take a break from swapping family photos to give our photographer a big smile.

Proud members of the 50th Reunion class stand for their induction into The Golden Society. Reunion 2001 spans the decades!

To Our Readers, Welcome to the pages of From the Hill, the new Albertus newspaper just for Let us know how you like From the Hill. It is a publication for you, alumni. This publication, named for the College’s location on Prospect Hill, and we want to make sure it meets your needs. Please send your comments is part of our plan to provide more frequent communications to you, keeping or suggestions to me at zudekof f@ albertus.edu or call me at 203-773-8502. you up to date and connected to what’s happening in the life of the College Rosanne Zudekoff ’60 and in the lives of your classmates. Director of Communications More frequent issues mean you’ll be getting news while it’s still new. You’ll continue to receive Albertus, the College’s magazine for alumni, parents and friends.

From the Hill 3 2001 Alumni of the Year Awards

Category I Loyalty and Service to the College Lynne Stapleton Farrell ’60 The love Lynne Stapleton Farrell demonstrates for her alma mater makes her one of the College’s most fervent and loyal supporters. Whether with class - mates, friends from college days, colleagues, peers or members of the professional and business communi - ties, she is ever the advocate for Albertus. Since graduation, she has served as a member of countless class, reunion and Alumni Association committees. Supportive of her own class, she also has developed a special relationship with members of the Class of 1961, keeping them up to date on College news, most recently by email. Elected an Alumni Trustee for the 1996-1999 term, she currently serves as a Trustee of the College. As a long-time member of The President’s Asso ci ates, she believes it is impor - tant to give back to the place where she received the foundation and incentive for a lifetime of learning. She received an MS from Southern Connecti cut State University, a Certificate of Advanced Study from Fairfield University, a Ph.D. from Fordham Pictured with President McNamara are Jane Nady Sigmon '70 (C-II), Rita Savarese Moule '39 (C-III) and Lynne S. Farrell '60 (C-I). University in Curriculum and Teach ing and, in 2000, a JD from Quinnipiac College School of Law.

Category II Alumni of the Year 2002 Nomination Form Outstanding Professional Achievement Nominations for the 2002 Alumni of the Year awards are sought from all members of the Alumni Jane Nady Sigmon ’70 Association. The Alumni of the Year awards will be presented at Reunion in June of 2002. All graduates In June of 2000, Jane Nady Sigmon, an advocate for of the College are members of the Alumni Association. victims’ rights for more than 15 years, became the U.S. State Department’s first victim assistance spe - Check the category in which you are nominating the alumna/us: cialist. She is developing a new strategy for dealing I. Loyalty and Service to Albertus Magnus College with local law enforcement agencies around the This yearly award is presented to a living member of the Association who has manifested extraordinary world on behalf of the hundreds of Americans who loyalty and dedication to the College. are victims of crimes while living or traveling abroad each year. Previously, at the American II. Outstanding Professional Achievement Prosecutors Research Institute, she directed This award, which need not be given each year, is presented to a living member of the Association research and evaluation efforts to meet the needs who has attained preeminence in his/her field through outstanding professional, scholarly or artistic of local prosecutors and community-based criminal achievement. justice agencies across the country. She was, for III. Humanitarian Award seven years, the executive director of VALOR This award, which need not be given each year, is presented to a living member of the Association (Victims’ Assistance Legi slative Organization) where who is devoted to serving others through volunteer work or community service. she helped to improve and expand the treatment of victims of violent crime through public education, training and public policy reform. A former director Nominee’s Name: Class Year: of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime and associate commissioner of the U.S. Reasons for Consideration: Children’s Bureau, she has been recognized nation - ally for her work in establishing crime victim pro - grams for Native Americans. She received her M.Ed. from Boston University and a Ph.D. in School Psychology from Duke University.

Category III Humanitarian/Community Service Rita Savarese Moule ’39 For more than 55 years, Rita Savarese Moule has Biographical Information: been a compassionate and committed volunteer. A charter member of the Catholic Women’s Guild of Holy Infant Church in Orange, Connecticut, she served as president of the Guild, director of the Religious Summer School and member of the Parish Council. President of the Orange Scholarship Fund for 15 years, and a charter member, she is now in her seventeenth year as a member of the selection committee. In 1994, she joined the Lioness Club because she was drawn to the mission of serving the blind and disabled. For her work as board secretary of the group, for ministering to premature Nomination submitted by: Class Year: babies at Yale-New Haven Hos pital and the Hospital of St. Raphael, and for supporting elderly residents Phone (day): ( ) Phone (evening): ( ) of local health care facilities, she was honored as Lioness of the Year in 1999. Many alumni and Email: Date submitted: friends are aware of and applaud Rita and her classmates as they continue to organize bi-weekly Return this form by May 1, 2002 to: gatherings of “The Club” which have continued Alumni of the Year Awards Committee, Albertus Magnus College, 700 Prospect Street, uninterrupted for 61 years. New Haven, CT 06511-1189, Fax 203-785-8652, [email protected]

4 December 20 01 Alumni Trustee Election Coming Up

The three-year terms of the two elected Alumni Trustee s— Joan Any graduate is eligible for nomination except: 1) A current Alumni Edwards Sacco ’59 and Jean Dennison ’7 8— will expire in June 2002. Trustee; 2) Members of the faculty or staff of the College; 3) The Presi- Please give thoughtful consideration to candidates for these important dent of the Alumni Association while holding that office. positions on the College’s Board of Trustees and submit your nomina - The nominating committee will review proposed names in two tions by February 1, 2002. The Committee will select the best-qualified groups so that there is proportional representation of the membership: candidates to stand for election. • Graduates of 25 years or more, i.e., 192 8–1972 • Graduates of 25 years or less, i.e., 197 3–2000

200 0– 2002 Board of Governors Alumni Association of Albertus Magnus College Alumni Trustee Nomination Form Term of 2002 –2005 President Jean Andros, ’95 (CE)

Vice President Marlene Passaretti, ’92 (CE) Nominee’s Name: Class Year:

Secretary Eileen Denny, ’92 Address: Members-at-Large Group I 192 8–1958 Philomena DeMaio La Viola, ’50 Phone (day): ( ) Phone (evening): ( ) Bette Ann Curtin Bailey, ’52 Email: Group II 195 9–1978 Kerith Prior, ’65 Dorothy Yutenkas Mutkowski, ’67 Nomination submitted by: Class Year:

Group III 197 9–1998 Victoria DePalma, ’92 Phone (day): ( ) Phone (evening): ( ) Catello James (C.J.) Cuticello, ’96 ’98 MS (New Dimensions) Email: Date submitted:

Two Recent Classes Everton Chambers, ’99 (ND) Donna Sjogren, ’00 MS (ND) Please attach a sheet with the nominee’s qualifications and verification of willingness to serve and attend four Board meetings a year. Candidates may self-nominate. Immediate Fiona Della Ventura, ’84 Past President Return this form by February 1, 2002 to:

Alumni Trustees Joan Edwards Sacco, ’59 Alumni Trustee Committee, Albertus Magnus College, 700 Prospect Street, 199 9–2002 Jean Dennison, ’78 New Haven, CT 06511-1189, Fax 203-785-8652, [email protected]

UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS

Back by popular demand! We’ve moved! Calling all Hartford/Springfield Mark your calendars for the Annual Celebration of Reunion has officially moved to the second Saturday area alumni! Saint Patrick! Saturday, March 16, 200 2— with live in June! Reunion 2002 is scheduled for June 7 –8, Gather with President McNamara at our New music by The Highland Rovers Band. 2002. Friday night in the pub will highlight the Dimen sions East Hartford Learning Center on Decade of the 80’s! On Satur day: expand your mind Wednesday, April 24, 2002. Located at 111 Founders at Alumni College; join us at lunch for the presenta - Plaza, the Learning Center offers eight classrooms, tion of the 2002 Alumni of the Year Awards; chat an interactive Smart Classroom and is home to with President McNamara over cocktails and hors over 500 adult learners. Come and see your local d’œuvres; tour the campus and gather with class - Albertus Campus! mates! Members of our 50th Reunion class will be inducted into The Golden Society of Albertus Magnus College on Saturday afternoon. A Cham - Questions about our upcoming events? pagne Toast with President McNamara will follow Email [email protected] or call 20 3-77 3- 8502. the Induction. For the most up-to-date information, visit our Call your classmates and friends! Come back to web site at www.albertus.ed u—and click on the alma mater in June! “Alumni and Friends” section. Keep an eye on the web for event registration

The Highland Rovers Band on stage in the campus pub. forms! www.albertus.edu Encore! Kate Sullivan ’72 returns to campus this spring for another musical performance. “Sweeney,” scheduled for Sunday, April 14, 2002, is a musical adaptation Mary Curley Beisel ’41 of medieval Irish stories and poems which tell of the shows off her Golden madness and downfall of an Irish king. Society Pins after the September 22, 2001, Inaugural Induction.

1991 classmates attend “Friday Night in the Pub.”

Kate Sullivan ’72 as “Piaf, the Little Sparrow.”

From the Hill 5 SPORTS

Imagine … You’re a young student on the Albertus basketball team, playing at an away game outside of Boston, and when you make a great shot, a cheer of “Go Falcons!!” comes from the crowd …what a thrill! You don’t have to be in New Haven to cheer on the Falcons. Calling all Rhode Island, Florida, Massachusetts and Vermont alumn i—gather a group of friends, call your classmates to come and support the AMC Falcons in YOUR neighborhood! Listed below are the winter 2002 basketball schedules, as well as Florida baseball tournament information, along with specific venue locations. News and photos from the games are most welcome and can be sent to [email protected] or to Albertus Magnus College, Office of Alumni Relations, 700 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Let’s go Falcons!

2001 –2002 Men’s Basketball Schedule Albertus Magnus College on the Road Day Date Opponent Time Place Daniel Webster College, 20 University Drive, Nashua, New Hampshire, 603-577-6000 Sat. Nov. 17 Wheaton College Tip-Off Tournament 8:00 ** Norton, MA Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, Willimantic, Connecticut, Sun. Nov. 18 Wheaton Tournament: Cons./Champ. 1–3:00 Norton, MA 860-465-5000 Tues. Nov. 20 Western Connecticut State University 7:00 Home Thurs. Nov. 29 Newbury College 7:00 Brookline, MA Elms College, 291 Springfield Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts, 413-594-9474 Sat. Dec. 1 Nichols College 1:00 Dudley, MA Emerson College, 100 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 617-824-8500 Thurs. Dec. 6 Eastern Connecticut State University 8:00 Willimantic, CT Sat. Dec. 8 Wesleyan University 3:30 Home Johnson and Wales University, 8 Abbott Park Place, Providence, Rhode Island, Mon. Dec. 10 Framingham State College 8:00 Framingham, MA 401-456-1000 Wed. Dec. 12 U.S. Coast Guard Academy 7:00 Home Norwich University, Main Street, Northfield, Vermont, 802-485-2000 Sat. Jan. 5 Westfield State College 3:30 Home Tues. Jan. 8 Gordon College 7:00 Wenham, MA Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 617-731-7000 Thurs. Jan. 10 Notre Dame (NH) College 7:00 Home Rivier College, 420 South Main Street, Nashua, New Hampshire, 603-888-1311 Sat. Jan. 12 Norwich University* 2:00 Northfield, VT Southern Vermont College, Monument Avenue Ext., Bennington, Vermont, 802-442-4600 Thurs. Jan. 17 Suffolk University* 8:00 Home Sat. Jan. 19 Daniel Webster College* 1:00 Nashua, NH Suffolk University, 41 Temple Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 617-573-8000 Thurs. Jan. 24 Emmanuel College* 7:00 Home Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, Connecticut, 860-297-2000 Sat. Jan. 26 Johnson & Wales University* 1:00 Providence, RI Tues. Jan. 29 Emerson College* 7:30 Home U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 33 Mohegan Avenue, Roland Field House, New London, Sat. Feb. 2 Southern Vermont College* 3:30 Home Connecticut, 860-444-8600 Tues. Feb. 5 Western New England College* 7:30 Home Western New England College, 1215 Wilbraham Road, Springfield, Massachusetts, Thurs. Feb. 7 Emmanuel College* 6:00 Boston, MA 413-782-3111 Sat. Feb. 9 Rivier College* 3:30 Home Tues. Feb. 12 Emerson College* TBA Boston, MA For a full list of venues, email to amcfalcons@aol.com or call the Athletic Center Thurs. Feb. 14 Suffolk University* 7:30 Boston, MA at 203-773-8575. Sat. Feb. 16 Johnson & Wales University* 3:30 Home TBA TBA GNAC Tournament (Opening Rd.) TBA Highest Seed Fri. Feb. 22 GNAC Tournament (Semi-finals) TBA J & Wales U. Sat. Feb. 23 GNAC Tournament (Championship) TBA J & Wales U.

*Denotes Great Northeast Athletic Conference Game **AMC vs. Wheaton @ 8:00 Head Coach: Bob McMahon (5th Season); Assistant: Jason Crockett (4th Season)

2001 –2002 Women’s Basketball Schedule Day Date Opponent Time Place Sat. Nov. 17 Mt. Ida College 5:00 Newton, MA Tues. Nov. 20 Trinity College 7:30 Hartford, CT Tues. Nov. 27 Salve Regina University TBA Newport, RI Thurs. Nov. 29 Elms College 7:00 Home Sat. Dec. 1 Nichols College 1:30 Home Tues. Dec. 4 Connecticut College 7:00 Home Thurs. Dec. 6 U.S. Coast Guard Academy 5:30 New London, CT Sat. Dec. 8 Mt. Ida College 1:30 Home Mon. Dec. 10 MA College of Liberal Arts 7:00 Home Sat. Jan. 5 Westfield State College 1:30 Home Sun. Jan. 6 Anna Maria College 1:00 Paxton, MA Sat. Jan. 12 Norwich University* 4:00 Northfield, VT Tues. Jan. 15 Newbury College 7:00 Brookline, MA President McNamara and Women’s Tennis Coach Betsy Fahy, Thurs. Jan. 17 Pine Manor College* TBA Chestnut Hill, MA daughter of the late Mary O’Brien Fahy ’29, pose for a team Sat. Jan. 19 Daniel Webster College* 3:00 Nashua, NH photo on Rosary Hall steps. Mon. Jan. 21 Emmanuel College* 2:00 Home Sat. Jan. 26 Simmons College* TBA Boston, MA Tues. Jan. 29 St. Joseph College* 5:30 Home Thurs. Jan. 31 Framingham State College 6:00 Framingham, MA Falcons in Florida! Sat. Feb. 2 Southern Vermont College* 1:30 Home Tues. Feb. 5 Western New England College* 5:30 Home The men’s baseball team will be playing in Homestead, Florida Thurs. Feb. 7 Emerson College* TBA Boston, MA from Saturday, March 9 through Friday, March 15, 2002. Games will Sat. Feb. 9 Rivier College* 1:30 Home be held at the Baseball Complex in Homestead. A final schedule of Tues. Feb. 12 Suffolk University* 7:00 Boston, MA the Falcons eight game roster will be posted sometime in January Sat. Feb. 16 Johnson & Wales University* 1:30 Home Wed. Feb. 20 GNAC Tournament TBA Highest Seed on our web page at www.albertus.edu in the Athletics section. Fri. Feb. 22 GNAC Tournament (Semi-finals) TBA J & Wales U. For more information please contact the Athletic Department Sat. Feb. 23 GNAC Tournament (Championship) TBA J & Wales U. at [email protected] or call the Athletic Center at 203-773-8575. *Denotes Great Northeast Athletic Conference Game All Florida alumni, family and friends are invited to attend! Head Coach: Ed Panzo (2nd Season) Assistant Coach: Wendy Coleman ’00 (2nd Season)

6 December 20 01 THEATRE

The Play’s the Thing One of the first extracurricular groups established “My Fair Lady” but kept forgetting on the Albertus campus in 1925 was The Albertus my two lines,” she confesses. Magnus Players. In 1928 the 12 members of the Soon she joined a small com - College’s first graduating class found immediate munity summer theatr e— in North employment in business, teaching…and acting. Branford (CT) where she grew Over the years the connection to the dramatic up— as assistant director and arts has flourished, with countless Albertus alumni experienced her personal version of working in the theatre. Kim Mancuso ’74, for “the show must go on.” “We were example, is a lecturer in theatre arts at MIT and working on Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” artistic director and co-founder of Pilgrim Theatre, The director became quite ill and a not-for-profit company now based in western could not continue. She told me Massachusetts, with a residency at the Boston when I went to visit her in the Center for the Arts. hospital that I should finish the

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University in 1976 and an MFA from Yale Univer- at the time, but rather following B sity’s School of Drama in 1981. some kind of theatrical intuition: Talking about the impact of Albertus on her life, breaking the fourth wall; having actors mixing with tional Group—Kermit in the title role—and then we Mancuso says that two mentors, Susan Cole and the audience; lighting the ballroom scene, a sea of disbanded it.” Although most of the actors returned Bob Jennings, are the “greatest gifts” Albertus gave romantically clad dancers in white ball gowns, to the States, she and Dunkelberg stayed on, found - to her. “Susan Cole, (professor of English and direc - through a scrim of lavender netting.” ing Pilgrim Theatre and hoping to continue the phys - tor of the drama concentration at the College today) Reflecting on those days, she says, “From the ical training and theatre philosophy of Cynkutis. But and I have an on-going dialogue around issues of beginning I had more courage as a director than an after one too many difficulties with the local military theatre and life, and I count her as one of my most actor. I discovered a passion for creating the whole police, they, too, decided to return home. cherished friends. She has offered guidance and sup - theatrical worl d… and so I became the director of Back in the States they began a continuing port in the darkest times, and we have celebrated that little theatre, returning to it each summer relationship with MIT as Guest Artists in Resi - some of the brightest moments of life together. through my junior year at Albertus.” In 1974, her sen - dence. Today, Mancuso teaches acting there and “I was in awe of her brilliance from the moment ior year, Bob Jennings started a summer theatre on from time to time directs students, and continues I walked into her Shakespeare course and was never campus, which she joined. the work of Pilgrim Theatre Research and Perfor - nervous about approach - One year out of Yale mance Colla bor ative. ing Shakespeare after Drama School, Mancuso “I strive to make every new work a challenge to that. I remember the “From the beginning attended a summer workshop me, and to the artists of Pilgrim Theatre,” she says, huge fear I had about at Hamilton College that dra - considering herself an enabler or catalyst. “We have one paper in particular. I had more courage matically changed her life. performed in the vast Cyclorama at the Boston It was on “Hamlet,” on There she met Zbigniew Center for the Arts; in the winding centuries-old which Mrs. Cole based Cynkutis, a one-time leading tunnels under a culture-house in Krakow, Poland; her dissertation. But I as a director actor in the Polish Laboratory in an arena in Urubamba, Peru; at Don’t Tell MaMa, thought I should chal - Theatre living in self-imposed a smoky New York cabaret and at LaMaMa, the lenge myself, and if I than an actor.” exile with his family in the famed Off-Off Broadway theatre of Ellen Stewart; could write about U.S. as a protest to the Soviet and at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.” “Hamlet” to her satisfaction, then I could accomplish occupation of Poland. “When he returned to Poland The company, which has four core artists and nearly anything I set my mind to doing. The best to create a new theatre, he invited me to join him as two dozen associate artists, creates original work. In thing of all was that I, too, fell in love with “Hamlet.” the director of the International Group of his compa - 1991, for example, it toured Europe with a project Years later Mancuso would meet her partner, ny, and I did.” based on the notebooks of Leonardo di Vinci. Kermit Dunkelberg, working on the play together What started out as a six-month commitment Recently, it created a piece about Sarajevo based on in Poland. turned into three years. Mancuso, who resigned her letters of people who survived the war there. Right Mentor Bob Jennings was “a constant inspira - position as head of the theatre program at Bradford now Pilgrim Theatre is touring with “The House Not tion in practical theatre. He taught me everything: College to remain in Poland, acted and directed at Touched by Death,” a new comedy with original how to sweep a stage properly; how to swing a Second Studio in Wroclaw. Kermit Dunkelberg was music by a Massachusetts playwright. “It takes to hammer; the intricacies of electrical circuitry and one of the American actors who joined the company task the healthcare system in this country and we lighting design; and Stanislavskian acting.” in 1986. do a post-show discussion with the audience and Mancuso remembers her first role in the the - Cynkutis was killed in a car crash the next year. end-of-life experts about the issues raised by the atre, at age 8 in “The Nutcracker.” By her first year “We tried to continue Second Studio, but the politics production,” Mancuso says. in high school, she was trying out for roles because of the situation were too difficult,” she says. “I fin - Recalling her student days at Albertus, Mancuso her friends were involved. “I was a flower seller in ished 40 performances of “Hamlet” with the Interna - states with certainty that this is where she gained the “strong sense of the value of community that I believe has sustained me in my life and work. I understood the community that was the College, Act 2 Theatre and another that was the smaller group of col - leagues who worked so passionately in the theatre. 200 1–2002 This early work, in community, made me under - stand that it is just as valuable to try, and to fail, as Season Schedule it is to succeed. And to understand, too, that if the community persists, one can keep going, in spite of (Remaining Productions) failure. We never stop learning. “Sister Mary Faith Dargan once said that she West Side Story learned as much from her students as they did from her...and I think I must have said the same thing February 22 –March 9, 2002 about a thousand times over the years.” George M. For more about Kim Mancuso’s work as a director, read “Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of May 3 –May 18, 2002 Company” by Susan Letzler Cole (Routledge, 2001). Dr. Cole describes the participation of playwrights All performances run on in rehearsals of their plays, including Jean-Claude Friday and Saturda y–8:00 p.m. and on Sunda y–2:00 p.m. van Itallie whose work “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” Mancuso directed at the Boston Center for For information and reservations please call the Act 2 Theatre at 203-773-8584. the Arts in 1998.

Alumni ticket price: $10

From the Hill 7 CLASS NOTES

1932 70th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 Katherine Schlauder O’Connor, Stratford, CT, but maintains a private practice as a psychologist. She a real estate broker, is on the board of directors of the and Lou recently celebrated 44 years of marriage; they Chamber of Commerce and a member of the beautifi- have five children and eight grandchildren. 1934 cation and affordable housing committees, as well as Jean Venditti Leary, New Haven, CT, was honored the business/education support team. 1956 in May by the Alliance Francaise for her 40 years of Katherine Fallon Quinn, Ponte Vedro Beach, FL, Barbara Walsh Angelillo, Rome, Italy, a freelance service to the organization. Her granddaughter Maura, volunteers with the St. Vincent de Paul Society and is writer and editor, reports that Ernesto died in 1997. Connecticut College ’01, is attending the Ecole Normale active in three women’s clubs. She has three children and two grandchildren. Superieure in Paris this year. Lois Agne Westhoff, Wallingford, PA, enjoys travel, Ann Braun Bevak, Grosse Ile, MI, is a Eucharistic reading, walking and her work with several parish minister at her church, volunteer at the local historical 1937 65th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 ministries. museum and director for the building and maintenance Mary Rita Crotta Watson, Pacific Palisades, CA, of a children’s discovery garden at the herb society. travels often, mostly with Elderhostel. She writes that 1952 50th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 Albina Sacco Cannavaciolo, North Haven, CT, she “is mourning the death of my younger brother, Phyllis Aldous Russell, Marlton, NJ, and her hus - a mathematics education consultant, is president-elect Daniel Crotta.” band, Larry, are “happily” retired, visiting their three of the Hospital of St. Raphael Auxiliary. children and seven grandchildren in Minnesota, 1941 Ann Bunnell Coppola, Punta Gorda, FL, writes that Virginia and Washington, D.C. after a difficult year-and-a-half since the deaths of their Juliette Roche Ewart, Arlington Heights, IL, is a Betsy Meyer Traynor, Guntersville, AL, continues daughter and her mother, she and Joe are “trying to neighborhood volunteer and Eucharistic minister, and her psychiatry practice. She has 19 grandchildren and enjoy their time together, taking trips to see more of works with a group that helps the homeless. enjoys taking friends and family out on her pontoon Florida. Come on down—it’s great!” Mary Duff Murphy, Stratford, CT, enjoys reading, boat at Lake Guntersville. “I welcome visitors.” Diane Mormile Cosker, Wethersfield, CT, reports that gardening and needlework. She wishes classmates her husband, John, is recovering from a major stroke “good health and contentment with an abundance of 1953 he suffered on his 65th birthday in January, 2001. God’s blessings, always.” Sr. Mary Faith Dargan, O.P., New Haven, CT, Eileen Farrell Kinney Dubois, Enfield, CT, is received the Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award 1942 60th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, a literacy at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of volunteer and a 1st Way Life Center volunteer. New England in March, 2001, for contributions to the 1944S field of Classics in New England. Joan Giardina, Ansonia, CT, now retired, is a member of the historical society, garden club, Delta Gamma Beverly Volk Fagan, Madison, CT, has 10 grandchil - Sr. Dolores Liptak, RSM, New Britain, CT, is the Kappa Society International and a volunteer at Record - dren and five great-grandchildren from “coast to coast.” author of “Hartford’s Catholic Legacy: Leadership,” ing for the Blind and Dyslexic. She keeps in touch with Eileen Foley Fitzpatrick based on her research into the archives of the Archdio - and Dottie Butler Hyland, “friends since 1941 at cese. A review in The Catholic Transcript called the Patricia Hinchey, Rockville Centre, NY., is retired on AMC as freshmen.” book “a spiritually enriching history.” orthopedic disability. Gloria Segnalla Golia, Hamden, CT, reports that her Barbara McCarthy McCooe, Ridgewood, NJ, and Arline Walsh Lloyd, Beverly Hills, CA, is a docent at granddaughter graduated in 2001 from Boston College her husband, Jack, took a 40th anniversary trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her husband, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. northern Italy, hiking in the Dolomites and along the David, received the Writer’s Guild of America’s Paddy Mediterranean coast. They are awaiting the birth of Chayefsky Laurel Award, the Guild’s highest award for 1946 their 11th grandchild, and two of their children were television writing. Her son, Christopher, won a writing award at the same ceremony. Janet Sachs Saslow, Hamden, CT, is involved with married this year. the National Council of Jewish Women and Brandeis Claudette Willig McGinty, Southbury, CT, enjoys University Women’s Chapter. 1954 retirement, travel with her husband and making new Dolores Brexel Boyle, Coram, NY, reports that her friends. “Being a grandparent has provided an added 1947 55th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 second daughter enrolled in law school. “Considering dimension to life.” she has four children, including one in college, I con- Patricia Crotty Miele, Southbury, CT, is heavily 1949 sider her remarkable.” involved with activities for her condominium, parish nurse ministry and church Respect Life Committee. Faith Augur McCarthy, Northford, CT, attended a 1955 recent Augur family reunion, which drew nearly 200 Calista Daley Moon, Pittsboro, NC, is a part-time persons from around the country. The first local Augur Janet Brenner Franzoni, Atlanta, GA, sends word children’s librarian, and competes in local, state and arrived in the New Haven area in the 17th century. that she retired from Georgia State University in 1998, Senior Olympics swimming meets.

Tribute to a Teacher Mary Ellen Murphy Mininberg ’49, of New Haven, CT, was honored in the Novem- Marge Galvin-Karr ’74 A bright life ber 11 Connecticut section of The New York PROFILE Times. The article “Saluting Teachers Worth Remembering” included a letter written by a It’s a long way from Walsh Hall at Albertus to her lab at Duke Energy, a Fortune 100 multi - former student in her 12th-grade English national energy company, but Marge Galvin-Karr has loved every step of the journey. Majoring in chemistry and mathematics, she knew that a lab always would be her class who said, “She not only inspired me to home away from home. After Albertus, she received a Master’s degree in chemistry from the become a teacher, she made me want to be University of Connecticut and took her first job as an analytical chemist for the Dexter the kind of teacher she was, and showed me Corporation in Rocky Hill, CT. Next came a nine-year stint as a scientist at Stanley Works, the power that a teacher’s love of the subject where she supported worldwide manufacturing and product development through analysis matter can carry in a classroom.” of polymeric materials. This was followed by a move to quality assurance operations at American Cyanamid. By 1988, Galvin-Karr was the analytical chemistry manager for the Springborn Testing Institute in Enfield, 1951 supervising a group of chemists doing materials analysis for a variety of commercial customers, but she and her husband, Chuck, an accountant, were getting tired of heavy traffic and heavier snow. “When Chuck was offered Sr. Charles Marie Brantl, O.P., New Haven, CT, after a transfer to North Carolina, we grabbed it and moved south,” she says. 11 years as vice president for academic affairs at AMC, Her first job at the then Duke Power Company involved providing analytical chemistry services to support enjoyed a three-month sabbatical and is back half-time the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro generating stations. Since a 1997 merger with Pan Energy of Houston, as director of assessment and institutional research. her laboratory provides analytical chemistry support to Duke Energy locations throughout the United States. Eleanor Regan Bush, Maryville, TN, grandmother Today, Galvin-Karr is a project manager, one of three scientists serving as a single point of contact to 11, is retired. She is chair of the liturgy committee of between customers of laboratory services and the laboratory itself. The sheer volume of the 39,000 samples her church, and involved with the local Food Pantry and the nearly 163,000 different analyses the lab handled last year on everything from soil and waste water and Friendship Force. to drinking water and natural gas makes the interface job crucial. “We help our customers design and manage Rosemary Herold Calvit, Potomac, MD, reports that sampling and analysis programs. This ranges from identifying the specific analyses they need to monitoring she and Tom are presidents of St. Raphael’s Adult Club. laboratory certifications,” she says. Patricia Flynn, Ellijay, GA, is retired and enjoying “The only major challenge I face at this point in my career is the work/life balance issue. I am child-free, traveling. so I constantly have to fight the trap of spending too much time at work.” After working for 25 years, Galvin- Karr finds that “my priorities are changing, and climbing the corporate ladder is just not that important to me Leonore McAlonen Mosley, Salem, SC, is retired, but keeps busy with her family, golf, reading, bridge anymore.” What is important is enjoying life with Chuck and their golden retriever, Katie. and performing with a community chorus.

8 December 20 01 Louise Colvano Pease, Ft. Pierce, FL, enjoys grand - children, family reunions at her lake house in Maine, gardening and volunteer work, including presidency of the Canaan (ME) Volunteer Library Association. Mary Ann O’Brien ’93 Career Choices Betty Heery Porell, Ft. Myers, FL, is involved with tutoring and Catholic Charities of Venice, FL. She says PROFILE that among “the friends I most cherish are women I met through Albertus who are unafraid to think and As School to Career Coordinator for the New Haven (CT) Board of Education, Mary Ann willing to act.” O’Brien knows first-hand that career education and exploration activities can put students on a path to lifetime learning and fulfilling lives. Her work today reflects in large part her 1957 45th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 own path to a career that is challenging and fulfilling. “I was the associate executive director of a YWCA. Unfortunately, I had never 1961 completed my undergraduate degree,” she says. That ruled out applying for an executive director’s position. Maryanne Convey Beckford, Menlo Park, CA, The idea of finishing her degree and doing it through an accelerated program at announces the arrival of her fourth grandchild, the third in eight months. Albertus, near her work, appealed to O’Brien. After meeting the staff of the Continuing Education Division and some faculty members, she knew Albertus was the place for her. “Everyone was friendly and helpful; I was Jeannette Grellner Birmingham, Silver Spring, MD, nervous. After all, I hadn’t been a student for years.” is retired but does scientific writing, book chapters and Once she enrolled, she knew she had made the right choice. Sociology and religion were “absolute grant writing on contract. favorites.” Professors made her time at Albertus a “challenging, satisfying, interesting, intellectually stimulating Trudy McKeon Daly, Glastonbury, CT, vp for corpo - and mind-expanding experience.” rate relations, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Her time at Albertus, she notes, gave her the foundation to move on and to handle any situation with received the 2000 Chairman’s Award for Distinguished confidence. “This included taking on responsibilities for which I had no experience or expertise; I learned that Community Service as part of a team that ran a there is very little I cannot do or accomplish.” nationwide campaign to share the results of a study In addition to her School to Career work, O’Brien also is the school system’s Title IX and Gender Equity on the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia on a per - son’s ability to drive. coordinator. With five centers and 12 staffers, she serves some 2000 students a year. O’Brien oversees a growing list of services and programs for elementary, middle and high school students Jean Mulmeister Davis has retired and relocated to —from computerized assessment tools and interest inventories to job shadowing and internships. There are East Palo Alto, CA, after 26 years in Puerto Rico. Her career days and guest speakers, classes on résumé writing and computer repair certification, mentoring and husband, Mike, has joined the design team developing internship placement. Add the challenges of finding summer jobs for 700 students in more than 60 community- a powerful radio telescope using hundreds of small satellite dishes linked with optical fibers. The project is based organizations and running an after-school computer camp for third and fourth graders, and you begin to a joint venture of the University of California at Berk - get some idea of the reach and impact of her office. eley and SETI Institute (Search for Extra-Terrestrial New collaborations are important as well. O’Brien notes that there now are partnerships with Unilever, Intelligence). SNET, Yale University, Yal e–New Haven Hospital, New Haven Savings Bank and many other businesses and non-profit agencies. Maxine Parcells Driscoll, Danbury, CT, teaches at Ridgefield High School. She travels, golfs, swims and Giving students options for their futures is what the job is all about, O’Brien points out. “The bottom line does needlework. is that we are making a difference in the lives of many students.” Angela DeFilippi Errico, Plandome, NY, a sculptor, is active with art-related organizations.

1962 40th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 1970 Sherrie Zembrzuski, Waterbury, CT, teaches chem - istry and math at Notre Dame Catholic High School Anita Domizio, Farmington, CT, had an exhibition, 1964 in Fairfield, where she is the cheerleading coach. She “Images of a Soul,” at the UConn Health Center. She also is in charge of the Connecticut State cheerleading MaryEllen McCann Adamo and her husband, Mike, combines Chinese watercolor pigments and ink with competition. are snow birds in Pompano Beach, FL. American and European watercolors, using Chinese and Japanese brushes to create her unique style. Clare McMahon Bernard, Cheshire, CT, visited 1977 25th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 Brazil as part of The Friendship Force, an organization fostering global goodwill through personal friendships 1971 at homestay exchanges. Diane Cadrain, West Hartford, CT, telecommutes to 1978 her job as legal editor for Business & Legal Reports in Patricia Checko, Berlin, CT, reports that the State Edie Davis, Hamden, CT, is a lecturer in the humani - Old Saybrook. Legislature appointed her to the Board of Trustees for ties at Gateway Community College. the Tobacco Settlement and Health Trust Fund. Bonnie Keyes, New York, NY, sends word that she has Pamela Lorenzo, Branford, CT, recently received the had her first poem published. Called “Redemption,” the Ellen Donahue, Chestnut Hill, MA, a high school MSW from Southern Connecticut State University. She poem appeared in Timepieces, a small literary magazine. teacher and department head, took early retirement is working toward the LCSW. July 1, 2001. In early September she enjoyed an Franceen Lyons, Arlington, TX, is program manager, Michele Sorensen-Bagwell, Farmington, CT, is the Elderhostel trip to San Antonio, TX. sales training for Verizon. She volunteers at a homeless new director of New London’s Interdistrict School for shelter and is a reader at her church. Arts and Communication. She coordinated the Gifted 1966 and Talented Program for the Farmington schools and Karen McGroary Yardley, Milford, CT, is president taught for 14 years at the National Conference on the Maryann Civitello, Newton, MA, is an attorney, and of Our Lady of Mercy, Laurelton Hall, a private high Gifted and Talented at the University of Connecticut. serves on the boards of the local battered women’s shel - school for girls. ter and Girl Scout council. Olivia Paiva Klein, Tallahassee, FL, is bar counsel in 1972 30th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 the division of lawyer regulation for The Florida Bar. 1973 Mary Egan Mulligan, Clinton, CT, has a two-year-old In Memoriam grandson. She is a supervising clinician in the forensic Jean Incampo, Cheshire, CT, is now a paralegal for division of Connecticut Valley Hospital. a New Haven law firm. She also is a first-time grand - In October, Albertus learned that Gertrude mother. Sandra Lefevre Talbot, Naugatuck, CT, is a professor Sternchuss Leblond ’28, a member of the College’s of computer science at Naugatuck Valley Community first graduating class, died in 2000. Class president in College. She is Youth Exchange Officer for Naugatuck 1974 her senior year, she majored in Romance Languages. Rotary. Alexis Rascati Carol, Madison, CT, is the co-founder She lived in Montreal, Canada, where she had been and director of “Women in Transformation,” a network active with civic organizations there. 1967 35th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 of women helping women to transform their lives. May she rest in peace, cum angelis in caelo. Mary Beth White Congdon, Hamden, CT, reports 1968 that her stepson graduated from the Foote School in June, receiving awards for highest academic and athlet - Marion Tubridy Kennedy ’31 Joan Cashman Mazur, Havertown, PA, is vice presi - ic achievement, as well as the Foote School Prize for West Hartford, CT dent of Integrated Modular Systems, Inc., a family excellence in leadership and service. She is president- August 31, 2001 business in healthcare information systems. Her hus - elect of the Planned Giving Group of Connecticut. band, John, is president. They have three children and Jane McKeon Maloney ’35 one grandchild. Sarasota, FL 1976 November 14, 2001 Denise Franklin Terry, Chevy Chase, MD, took Joan Baldwin Chapman, Cheshire, CT, is senior advantage of her “empty nest” by remaining on Cape Helen Faughan Kiley ’49 administrative assistant in the Office of Facilities at Cod until late October. Her youngest is in her first Meriden, CT Yale University. year at Wesleyan University. July 9, 2001 Robin Cueroni Hanson, Knoxville, TN, volunteers in Mary Furtado Michael ’58 1969 the schools of her three children. She sings in a Sweet Fairfield, CT Adeline’s chorus that competed in October against 29 Suzanne Patry, West Haven, CT, has joined the staff October 3, 2001 other choruses from around the world. of Notre Dame High School’s foreign language depart - Dennis J. O’Connor ’01 ment. Claudia Lyons, Deerfield, MA, has been chosen to Naugatuck, CT receive the Greer Chair for Outstanding Teaching at November 16, 2001 Deerfield Academy.

From the Hill 9 CLASS NOTES

Kathleen Sullivan, Framingham, MA, is assistant director of senior plan sales for Fallon Community Tim Quinn ’88 A Journey like No Other Health Plan in Worcester. PROFILE 1981 “Life is just a journey. I’ve been blessed with the talent to survive the drama of day-to-day Judith Scibelli Basile, Hampden, MA, a sixth-grade living with humor and compassion.” teacher, recently traveled throughout the Baltic area. She and her husband, John, have four daughters: Taia, So says Tim Quinn whose journey has taken him from a typical brokerage firm in 16, Giana, 15 and twins Mia and Madelana, 13. Connecticut to Hollywood and Southeast Asia. An economics major and senior class presi - dent at Albertus, he graduated with the College’s first co-ed class, but had an Albertus Geri-Ann Scibelli Cimmino, Hampden, MA, and her family long before that. Christine Farley Quinn ’61 is his mother; Anne Farley Hubbard ’55 husband, Michael, have 15-year-old twins Michael and and Eileen Farley Caravati ’58, his aunts. Mikara, and Ben, 12. As a student he interned with Merrill Lynch and joined the firm as a sales assistant Tina Freilicher, Jackson Heights, NY, a doctoral in the Stamford branch right after graduation. A year later he transferred to Florida, as assistant sales manager candidate at Columbia University, is director of testing for the Fort Lauderdale office. What he calls the “strange twists of life” began when he left his job at Merrill standards at the New York Stock Exchange. Lynch to open an ice cream store, started modeling and, “through a form of EST worked hard to discover a new Liz Grey has left her position as news director of way of being and finally learned to be comfortable in my own skin.” WVIT-Channel 30 to concentrate on raising her four Traveling cross-country by hot air balloon for a Heublein promotion of tequila and Mexican art, Quinn “tested children, the youngest born in July. She and her hus - the waters” for an acting career in Hollywood. It was there that he began work on special events for the Borghese band, Arthur Godbout, live in Avon. cosmetics line. “I loved it,” he says. “Then I found myself in Milan for training as a Borghese make-up artist.” Laura Cavanaugh Montany, Glastonbury, CT, For the next five years he traveled constantly, but counts a month-long trip to Southeast Asia as a a kindergarten teacher, coaches “Odyssey of the Mind” “harrowing experience.” The poverty he saw was overwhelming: “It truly opened my eyes to how fortunate I teens. Her children are 17, 15 and 12. have been in my life and made me rethink my whole world.” Two years ago he joined the Laura Mercier Cosmetics and Skincare Company as the top producing make - 1982 20th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 up artist. He did special events, training, selling and promoting the line internationally; he continued to travel in Maureen O’Neil, Tallahassee, FL, takes Irish step his spare time. This year he became National Face Designer for the Giorgio Armani Parfums division of L’Oreal dancing lessons with her children Kate, 9, and Daniel, USA, based in New York. 7. She is assistant director of Refuge House, a shelter “Life has been kind to me,” Quinn says. “I’ve worked all over the world, encountered fascinating people for battered women and their children. Her husband, from all walks of life.” He talks, too, of his beloved Nana, who died recently at 98, and her impact on him. Mark Bollone, is in his 10th year of teaching at Talla - “She taught me so much of life, the importance of loving and living with grace. I miss her terribly and strive hassee Community College and is president of the Buck to impact the lives of others in much the same way.” Lane Elementary School PTO. (Editor’s Note: We apolo - The future? “Someday, in my perfect world, I dream of taking my love of the cosmetics industry and gize for running this item under the Class of 1962 in the last issue.) the business acumen it has given me and starting my own business. But, for now, I continue to love my daily chaotic life and all the wonderful experiences it brings.” 1986 Josephine Agnello-Veley, Kensington, CT, a human resources associate at United Technologies’ corporate headquarters, is a United Way volunteer and involved Kim Richards Engelhart, Mahwah, NJ, has three Division. She now is product manager, critical care with several organizations fostering employment of daughters: Taylor, Hannah and Madison. systems, for Tyco Healthcare’s Nellcor Division in persons with disabilities. Pleasanton, CA. D. Danielle Barry LoCasio, Naugatuck, CT, has two Judie Pierwola Alderman, Branford, CT, is an ele - children: Dante Antonio and Ariana Rose. Katie Geis, Forest Hills, NY, received an MBA from mentary school art teacher. She enjoys kayaking, belly - New York University in 1999. She is a director in the dancing, book clubs and supporting animal rights. Jill Mauro-Sweet, Madison, CT, is a member of the IS department of a reinsurance company and recently Catholic Charity League, a catechist at her church and Michelle Fiorillo Della Camera, North Branford, CT, bought a co-op. an “Odyssey of the Mind” coach. Her children are 8 and 4. is an adjunct instructor at Gateway Community College. Her daughters are 4 and 2. 1989 1987 15th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 Christy Dibble, East Greenwich, RI, has twin daugh - Patricia Scussel, East Haven, CT, executive director ters, Alexandra and Isabella, and is married to Thomas of Leadership New Haven, was honored by Business 1988 Lanna, a cardiologist. She is director of Gastrointestinal Times newspaper in its Forty Under Forty program, and Endoscopy Services at Women and Infants Hos - Gina Baldo has returned to the States after seven recognizing outstanding professional achievement and pital in Providence. years in Singapore, where she was product and busi - community involvement. ness development manager for Tyco/U.S. Surgical

In Memoriam: Alumni Relatives and Members of the Albertus Community

The sons of two alumnae died in the World Trade Center Christopher Chieffo, Jean K. Licari, mother of Patricia Licari Cucuzza ’57 attack on September 11, 2001. May they, and all those son of Beverly Chieffo, chair of the Art Department Elizabeth Kileen Lyons, mother of who perished that day, rest in peace, cum angelis in August 17, 2001 Elizabeth Lyons Weber ’58 and Mary Killeen Lyons ’59 caelo. Mary Cimmino, mother of Kathie Cimmino Sabel ’95 September 10, 2001 Peter G. Gelinas, 34, the son of Susan Brown Gelinas November, 2001 John A. Mullen, M.D., husband of ’63 and the late Gerard Gelinas, was a graduate of G. Kathryn Clark, sister of Calista Daley Moon ’56 Katharine Curnen Mullen ’37 Villanova University. A partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, he July 10, 2001 October 12, 2001 leaves his wife and two sons, 4 and 1. David R. Coleman, father of Wendy Coleman ’00, John P. O’Connell, husband of Christopher W. Murphy, 35, was the son of Virginia assistant women’s basketball coach Marietta Lanthier O’Connell ’37 Selfors Murphy ’49 and William Murphy. He graduated June 4, 2001 November 14, 2001 from Yale University, Emory University Law School and The College of William and Mary, where he received the Catherine D. Creagan, sister of Mary Desmond ’35 John Pierwola, father of Judie Pierwola Alderman ’86 MBA. A research analyst with the financial firm of Keefe, May 8, 2001 March 1, 2001 Bruyette & Woods, he was married with two daughters, Louis H. DiTallo, father of Theresa C. Ragozzine, mother of 2 years old, and 4 months. Dianne DiTallo Smith ’66 and Cynthia DiTallo Starks ’73 Carolyn Ragozzine Akter ’56 July 10, 2001 November 3, 2001 Harold G. Anderson, husband of Florence Anderson, Angelina V. Doyon, mother of Yvonne Doyon Petrin ’78 Robert G. Smith, father of Amanda Smith ’99 former bookstore and Financial Aid office staff member August 13, 2001 June 21, 2001 July 16, 2001 Joseph M. Giardina, father of Joan M. Giardina ’56 Herbert W. Thode, father of Colette Thode Dziadul ’83 Richard Arena, husband of J. Elaine Winfield Arena ’49 September 15, 2001 October 17, 2001 October 10, 2000 Stanley R. Gomlin, father of Sandra Gomlin Ineson ’67 Jerome M. Torre, Sr., Francis R. Cassidy, Jr., and grandfather of Erlen Stebbings ’92 father of Jerome Torre, Jr., physical plant staff husband of Mary Ann Blondin Cassidy ’60 September 25, 2001 May 15, 2001 March 19, 2001 William Kotulich, brother of Dorothy Kotulich Stawarky ’52 George A. Wilson, husband of Helen Hankin Wilson ’41 September 18, 2001 May 13, 2001 A. Paul Levack, husband of Helen O’Brien Levack ’32 November 4, 2001

10 December 20 01 1990 Meg Meiman Layton, Nokesville, VA, continues to Prospect Hill Society make frequent international trips as IT director for Many loyal alumni and friends have indicated that they have included Albertus Magnus Starcel Communications Group. College in their estate planning. To recognize and honor these benefactors during their lifetimes, the College has established the Prospect Hill Society. 1991 If you have mentioned Albertus in your estate planning, please let us know. We will list Dianibel Aviles-Perez, New Haven, CT, is a post- doctoral psychology fellow at St. Francis Home for you as a Charter Member of the Prospect Hill Society in the College’s Annual Report for Children. 2001 –2002. Please contact Rosanne Zudekoff ’60, Director of Communications, at 203-773-8502; Jo Ann Callegari, CE, West Haven, CT, has been fax 203-785-8652; email zudekof [email protected]. the elected Registrar of Voters there for 20 years. She works for a New Haven law firm. Richard Freeth, New York, NY, singer-songwriter by the Stratford Town Council since 1999, he is currently Catherine Rowell Casper, Simsbury, CT, is a part- night, lawyer by day, has been performing in Greenwich minority leader. time freelance writer and full-time stay-at-home mom Village, Lower East Side and New Haven clubs. His EP, to her three sons. Jamie Mowat Young, CE, Killingworth, CT, is “Like in the Movies,” was recorded with his current director of admissions at the Yale University Graduate Christine Cosenza, Hamden, CT, works for Verizon backing band, the Squibbs. School. Wireless. She also facilitates support groups for recov - Jennifer Hurtado Daniels reports that she, Jason, ering adult children and is a published writer and poet. Eleanor and the new baby, Thaddeus, born in May, are 1997 5th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 She plans to pursue a master’s degree and right now is off to London for three to six months. Jason will be in studying for certification as a shamanic practitioner. Kimberly Dunn, Thomaston, CT, is now teaching charge of setting up the new pricing office for the global second grade in the Granby school system. Italia Defazio, Avon, CT, is a group life and disability sales and marketing division of his company. underwriter at Hartford Life Insurance. Suzanne Siegel, CE, Guilford, CT, was selected to participate in a six-week exchange program with the Laura Bushinsky McCarthy and James McCarthy 1994 National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. live in Norwalk, CT. She is an accountant and he is a Marco Rafala, New Haven, CT, has sold his first short senior sales consultant. Their daughter, Caitlin, was story, “Tenebre,” to the Bellevue Literary Review, a jour - 1998 born in December, 2000. nal published by the New York University School of Medicine. In October, he gave a reading at a reception Nancy Rodriguez Johnson, CE, Milford, CT, married Valzie Peterkin, CE, Orange, CT, is director of the celebrating the first issue of the journal. Craig Johnson in 1998. They bought a 1785 early Greek Family Center at St. John’s in Bridgeport, and involved Revival house a month before their son, Jake, was born with many community groups. Nancy Grecco Sudhoff, CE, Milford CT, writes that in April, 2001. She works part-time as a consultant for Sarah Martha was born in February, 2001. Connie Notarino Pullman, Higganum, CT, works for BIC Corporation, training software users and helping Bristol-Myers Squibb. She has a three-year-old daughter. develop business processes. 1995 Ellin Regis-Cowie, Garden City, NY, and her hus - Michael Raymond, CE, Brooklyn, NY, has been Amie Keddy, Cambridge, MA, has been accepted into band, Stephen Cowie, have a son, Connor. She is an promoted from service desk coordinator to recruiting the graduate program in creative writing at attorney. specialist at Prudential Investments. Bennington. Salvatore Saraceno is a contract manager at Hans - Matthew Martin played Troilus in a production of com AFB, MA. He recently graduated from the U.S. Air 1999 “Troilus and Cressida” staged by New York’s Bardolatry Force Officer Training School. He and his wife, Lucia, Brian Dunne, CE, Southington, CT, channel sales Theatre in October. are expecting their second child. manager for the Qwest Business Partner Program, is Joset Crespo Rosado, Yonkers, NY, sends word that completing his master’s degree at New Dimensions. 1992 10th Reunion June 7 – 8, 2002 she married Marcos Rosado in June, 2001. A clinical Peter Phelan, ND, Milford, CT, is now vice president social worker with the Archdiocese of New York and Donna Cardonita-Nystrand, Guilford, CT, writes of and branch manager in Stamford for Connecticut Bank Catholic Charities Community Services, she directs the arrival of her first child, Giana Marie Nystrand, on of Commerce. a Parenting Education and Family Support Program. May 16, 2001. She would love to hear from classmates: 2000 Laura Kelly-Cormier, Yarmouthport, MA, is a com - [email protected]. mercial credit analyst at Citizens Bank of Massachusetts. Shannon McKeon Dubay, an account development 1996 representative for Conversent Communications in 1993 Rocky Hill, CT, married Richard Dubay in November, Anthony Cook has relocated to Alexandria, VA. 2000. Susan Bishop, CE, Peabody, MA, has returned from Christopher Silhavey, Stratford, CT, is a senior two years of teaching English in Poland. She is an ESL Nancy Webb-Wright, MS, Ridgefield, CT, has been analyst for SNET Information Services. A member of teacher. promoted to vice president at Ridgefield Bank. She is manager of its Customer Connections Call Center.

Thank You! Thank You! College Taps Alumna for V P– Academic Affairs Albertus Magnus College sincerely thanks Dr. Janet L. Fallon ’72 is back at Albertus, this time on the other all those who have contributed to the 200 0– side of the desk. The former History/English major is now vice 2001 Albertus Fund between July 1, 2000 president for academic affairs, succeeding Sr. Charles Marie Brantl, O.P., ’51, who served in that position for 11 years and cur - and June 30, 2001. Your gifts support rently is director of assessment and institutional research. teaching and scholarships, expansion of Prior to returning to Albertus, Dr. Fallon had been a member technology, maintenance and refurbishing of the faculty in the Department of Communications and Graphic of buildings and grounds, athletics and Design at Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, since 1988. student life. She also served as chairwoman of that department for 11 years. “Earlier in my teaching career as a college professor, I knew Whether yours is a first-time gift or that I eventually wanted to become an academic administrator an annual gift, whether $25 or $2,500, be at a college or universit y—and preferably at an institution with a assured that your alma mater is grateful Catholic identity,” she says. “Of course, the thought passed my to you for your loyalty and commitment. mind that perhaps one day I might be invited to return to my alma We extend a special thank you to those who mater in an academic capacity, but that was more wishful thinking have joined The President’s Associates, than active reality. That is, until last winter when after applying for the position of vice president for academic affairs, I was invited a distinguished group of benefactors who by the Search Committee to interview for the position.” choose to contribute annually $1,000 What are her feelings about being back at the College? “I or more towards the attainment of the have to confess that I am thrilled,” she says. “I find the campus mission and goals of the College. The now to be more beautiful than it was in 1972. And, of course, I am so pleased that our Albertus students generosity of all donors makes Albertus today can enjoy the improvements and expansions to the physical plant, such as the outdoor track, the Athletic Center and the computer labs. But what I find even more exciting is the array of academic programs stronger and more vigorous than ever. offered to our students. With the introduction of new publica - “Despite the sense of comfort and familiarity I have with being back on campus, I must say that tions and changes in structure and sched - Albertus Magnus College in many ways is a very different institutio n— and all the wonderful changes are to uling of existing ones, we will not publish the credit of the visionary Trustees, administrators and faculty who continuously set higher goals and an Honor Roll of Giving for the last (200 0– expand the boundaries.” Dr. Fallon’s early career included secondary school teaching at schools in Puerto Rico, Massachusetts 2001) annual fund year. Beginning with and Ohio. After completing her Ph.D., she served as an intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence the Fall of 2002, we will publish each year Agency and a systems analyst in the Federal Systems Group at TRW. a new and separate Annual Report of the She received a Master’s in communication and a Ph.D. in communication with a minor in education College, which will include the Honor Roll. administration from The Ohio State University.

From the Hill 11 An answer to the age-old question… Reunion 2002 June 7 and 8 “Should I go to my Come back to campus for: class reunion?”…. Friday night in the Pub Alumni College Alumni of the Year Awards To the Albertus Community: Cocktails and hors d’œuvres A Blast from the past! Tour the campus, shop the bookstore… Together with a handful of college classmates, I went to my 25th Albertus reunion this past fall. For many of us, it was the first time And More we had been back since graduation. We were amazed to see the many changes to campus but also relieved to see that many things were exactly the same. (Complete schedule and registration form As we walked around campus visiting our old dorms, we traveled to be mailed Apri l–May 02.) down a wonderful journey of emotional retrospection from a time filled with discovery, growth and pain. We laughed, we cried and maybe 25 years ago, we would have “crawled on our bellies like a reptile” but this time we just enjoyed the old memories of yesterday while creating “Those who hear the word of God by Truth new memories for tomorrow. are fed.” I brought my yearbook from 1975 and asked everyone to sign it —St. Thomas Aquinas for a second time, and we vowed not to wait 25 years to attend another Following the 50th Reunion Champagne reunion. Although my story may be familiar to all who have experienced Toast, 1951 class - reunion weekend, I’m encouraging my fellow reluctant alumni to go mates reflect upon the to your reunions when they come up. It’ll be a blast to see how much you words of St. Thomas Aquinas depicted remember and how much you’ve forgotten. It’ll be worth the effort, the in the mural by artist investment and the laughter. Tony Falcone.

Sincerely, Geri T. Mancini (Class of 1975)

Letter received in July 2001. Reprinted with permission.

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Keeping in touch with alumni of Albertus Magnus College who remember their days on Prospect Hill.

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